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Penguins scheduled to start goaltender Casey DeSmith against Flyers
The Pittsburgh Penguins are scheduled to start goaltender Casey DeSmith for Sunday’s home game against the rival Philadelphia Flyers at PPG Paints Arena. Coach Mike Sullivan announced DeSmith’s status approximately two and a half hours before the opening faceoff. In 37 games this season, DeSmith has a 14-16-4 record, a...
Penguins prospect Owen Pickering takes his 1st professional steps
Owen Pickering didn’t want to be in Wilkes-Barre by April. To be certain, he doesn’t have any kind of objection to Northeast Pennsylvania in the spring. He just wanted to be back in southwest Saskatchewan playing games that mean a bit more with his junior team, the Swift Current Broncos...
Minor league report: Penguins’ losing streak reaches 5Video
Goaltender Taylor Gauthier made 29 saves on 33 shots for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 4-3 overtime home loss to the Syracuse Crunch at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday. Penguins defenseman Ty Smith scored a goal, giving him four points (two goals, two assists) in his last three...
Penguins lose to Bruins, fall out of playoff position
The Boston Bruins weren’t at their best on Saturday as they rolled into PPG Paints Arena to take on the Pittsburgh Penguins. Having already secured the Presidents’ Trophy as the league’s top overall team in the regular season (and home-ice advantage throughout the postseason), the Bruins started their backup goaltender,...
Penguins scheduled to start goaltender Tristan Jarry against Bruins
The Pittsburgh Penguins are scheduled to start goaltender Tristan Jarry for Saturday’s home game against the Boston Bruins at PPG Paints Arena. Jarry’s status was announced by coach Mike Sullivan approximately two hours before the opening faceoff. In 41 games this season, Jarry has a 22-10-6 record, a 2.90 goals...
Minor league report: Owen Pickering debuts in Penguins lossVideo
Goaltender Dustin Tokarski made 25 saves on 28 shots in a 4-2 road loss to the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms at the PPL Center in Allentown on Friday. Forward Drake Caggiula and defenseman Ty Smith each scored goals for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (25-28-6-6) while forward Valtteri Puustinen contributed two assists. Defenseman Owen...
Tristan Jarry posts shutout as Penguins knock off Predators
It had been a while for Tristan Jarry. Well … eight days at least. Going into Thursday, the Pittsburgh Penguins’ would-be franchise goaltender had been a spectator for his team’s three previous games. Injured during his most recent appearance March 22, he had lots of time to heal from what...
Mikael Granlund sees ‘a lot of good things’ so far with the Penguins
Things were very different for Mikael Granlund the last time the Pittsburgh Penguins played the Nashville Predators. He was with the Predators. After the Penguins claimed a hard-fought 3-1 road win against Granlund’s Predators at Bridgestone Arena on Feb. 28, Granlund was traded to the Penguins less than 24 hours...
West Mifflin native Logan Cooley one of 3 finalists for Hobey Baker Memorial Award
University of Minnesota forward Logan Cooley, a native of West Mifflin, was named one of three finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, an honor that recognizes the top men’s player in college hockey. Joining him are fellow Minnesota forward Matthew Knies and Michigan forward Adam Fantilli. The award’s foundation...
Penguins assign defenseman Owen Pickering to Wilkes-Barre/ScrantonVideo
The Pittsburgh Penguins have assigned defenseman Owen Pickering, their first-round pick (No. 21 overall) in last year’s draft, to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL). Pickering’s junior team, the Western Hockey League’s (WHL) Swift Current Broncos, just completed its season on Saturday and did not qualify for the postseason....
Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry to start against Predators
The Pittsburgh Penguins are scheduled to start goaltender Tristan Jarry for Thursday’s home game against the Nashville Predators at PPG Paints Arena. Coach Mike Sullivan announced Jarry’s status following a morning skate. In 40 games this season, Jarry has a 21-10-6 record, a 2.98 goals against average, a .908 save...
Minor league report: Ty Smith returns in Penguins lossVideo
Forward Valtteri Puustinen scored two regulation goals for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 4-3 home shootout loss to the Providence Bruins at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Wednesday. Defenseman Ty Smith returned to the lineup after being sidelined since Feb. 18 due to facial bone fractures and recorded two...
Defenseman Jeff Petry’s 1st season with the Penguins has been ‘frustrating’ at timesVideo
Games in Detroit are always profound for Jeff Petry. A son of Michigan (and the son of Detroit Tigers All-Star pitcher Dan Petry), he went to Red Wings games at Joe Louis Arena as a fan (then played there on occasion while suiting up for Michigan State). And even if...
Penguins’ defense diced up in loss to Red Wings
For a few weeks now, the Pittsburgh Penguins have viewed the final stages of the regular season as their playoffs just to qualify for the actual playoffs while they battle with other teams for the only two wild-card positions in the Eastern Conference. “If you’re in the situation that a...
Penguins assign defenseman Taylor Fedun to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned defenseman Taylor Fedun to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL) Tuesday. This transaction comes as defenseman Jeff Petry is set to return to the lineup after missing five games due to a suspected head injury. Recalled under emergency conditions on March 20, Fedun has appeared...
Penguins forward Ryan Poehling adapting to 3rd-line center duties
Ryan Poehling had to think for a moment. Which did he have more pride in? A steal or the subsequent goal? “Ummm,” Poehling pondered. “Probably the steal. 100%.” And for a third-line center, defense should come first, right? That was the case Saturday when Poehling generated the Pittsburgh Penguins’ first...
Penguins forward Nick Bonino resumes skating
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Nick Bonino skated briefly Monday at the team’s facility in Cranberry for the first time since he suffered a lacerated kidney earlier this month. Stepping onto the rink prior to the team’s practice session, Bonino eventually watched his teammates from the bench. That marked a step forward...
Minor league report: Penguins lose againVideo
Goaltender Dustin Tokarski made 22 saves on 26 shots for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 5-1 home loss to the Hartford Wolf Pack at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Sunday. Forward Jonathan Gruden scored the only goal for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (25-27-6-5) which has lost six of its past eight games....
Mikael Granlund’s greatest value to Penguins might be his versatilityVideo
Mikael Granlund usually gets called one of two things. Either, “mih-KIGH-ehl”, the proper pronunciation of his first name, or “MIGH-kuhl,” the more Anglo-friendly version. For the record, it seems like most of his current teammates on the Pittsburgh Penguins are content with his nickname, “Granny.” Either way, the Finnish-born Granlund...
Minor league report: Penguins fall to Phantoms in overtimeVideo
Goaltender Taylor Gauthier made 21 saves on 24 saves in a 3-2 home overtime loss to the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday. Forward Drake Caggiula and defenseman Josh Maniscalco each scored goals for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (25-26-6-5). Highlights: The Penguins’ next game is a home...
Evgeni Malkin scores late to give Penguins stunning win against Capitals
Evgeni Malkin has seen enough. He would like it to stop. And he did just everything he could to prevent it from happening again (even if he had a role in allowing it to actually happen again) on Saturday. Far too often this season, the Pittsburgh Penguins have had wins...
Former Penguins forward Conor Sheary got his career back on track with the CapitalsVideo
At one time, it might have been a bizarre sight. Conor Sheary and Tom Wilson, locked arm in arm. The two Washington Capitals forwards sat next to one another in the visiting dressing room at PPG Paints Arena after Saturday’s morning skate and, in jest, pretended to pose with their...
Capitals coach Peter Laviolette still treasures his time with the Wheeling Nailers
There was a familiar name in Wheeling, W.Va. on Friday. Peter Laviolette. Then again, Peter Laviolette III has been in the Wheeling Nailers’ lineup for 30 games this season. A first-year professional, Laviolette III, who was born in Wheeling, joined the Pittsburgh Penguins’ ECHL affiliate as a free agent out...
Minor league report: Nailers clipped by WingsVideo
Goaltender Tommy Nappier made 27 saves on 29 shots for the Wheeling Nailers in a 2-1 home loss to the Kalamazoo Wings at Wesbanco in Wheeling, W.Va. on Friday. Defensemen Chris Ortiz scored the only goal for Wheeling (25-32-5-0). Highlights: Before the game, the Nailers inducted former coach Peter Laviolette...
With goaltender Tristan Jarry sidelined again, Penguins fall to Stars
The Pittsburgh Penguins are most certainly paying attention to other games in the NHL. After all, they haven’t played well enough to this point of the 2022-23 season to afford themselves the luxury of indifference to the rest of the league. “Everybody scoreboard watches a little bit this time of...
